Sinking of Yamato on PBS last night !!

I caught the show back in October when WNET broadcast it.  Very interesting program, but I have some complaints about it.  Mainly that they ignored entirely the existance and sinking of the Musashi and Shinano.  Instead they made it seem that the Yamato was unigue in its existance and our ability to sink it.  They also gave no mention to the fact that the Yamato did sink US ships dury the war (I definately know of the carrier Gambier Bay).

Still, it was a nice change from programs about nature and stuff.

Stuart

I'm hoping the do a repeat of it.  I went on PBS's site and did a search for it and it showed some amazing pics from the attack... I will have to keep an eye out for it...

Wow! i can't wait to see it when (or if) it comes to the
midwest.

Hi MBT70,the show was titled "Sinking of the supership" and lasted one hour. From what I gathered from the show, she was much longer and wider than previouse thought. Over 3000 sailors went down with her because watertight hatches were secured before they could escape.
emo07

Missed that, but I watch "Midway" on the History Channel last night!

Wow, coincidentally last night NHK here in Japan replayed a show from 1985 about the Yamato at the bottom of the sea. Evidently those were the first pictures ever of the ship as it lay on the bottom.
There's been a lot about the Yamato on TV here recently due to the release next month of the film "Otoko-tachi no Yamato." Which is a difficult title to translate effectively...literally, it means "Men's Yamato," or "Yamato of the Men," or "Yamato belonging to the Men," but none of that really works cross-culturally. Perhaps turning the literal meaning of the Japanese around would make a better title in English: "Men of the Yamato." That sounds good!

Missed it! Dang! What was it called ... maybe they'll re-run it like they often do ......